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"Reducing the risk of AI exterminating humanity should be a global priority, along with other social-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war."

Like a bucket of cold water poured down, including top experts in the field of artificial intelligence, "godfathers of AI"-level figures, industry bigwigs such as Sam Altman, CEO of Open AI, and Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind, and hundreds of practitioners signed an open letter.

In the letter, they called on governments and the public to be cautious enough about AI, fearing that with the rapid advancement of AI technology, it may pose an existential threat to humanity.

This is reminiscent of Musk's warnings and calls to suspend the development and experimentation of large-scale artificial intelligence, "advanced artificial intelligence may represent a profound change in the history of life on Earth, and should be planned and managed with corresponding attention and resources." ”

The two heavyweight warnings before and after make people have to seriously think about how we should face the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence.

Regarding AI, everyone is actually on the same starting line

Although Open AI's ChatGPT has taken the world by storm and led people's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence, the industry has already believed that AI has indeed entered the "iPhone moment".

That is to say, just as Jobs launched the iPhone and officially opened the era of mobile Internet, mankind is about to begin (or has been) entered the era of artificial intelligence.

However, the difference with the mobile Internet era is that it is difficult to say who is the leader, whether it is the United States or China, including Europe, no one dares to say that they are Jobs, because no one has launched an epoch-making product such as the iPhone.

In the big era, although OpenAI is half a position ahead, it may only be a "precursor to the king", and no company has yet built a strong barrier and moat, and all players are relatively on the same starting line.

Perhaps it won't take a few years to see who the "destiny of heaven" is.

The warning of the father of ChatGPT deserves heed

As CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman does have a sense of transcending business interests, and he has emphasized the risks of AI many times.

The rapid development of AI models such as ChatGPT could pose a potential threat to society and jobs, and if AI spirals out of control, it will cause mass human deaths and even the risk of extinction, just like pandemics and nuclear wars.

Therefore, Sam Altman and many others have called for governments to strengthen regulation, but the problem is that government agencies often lag behind in regulating new things and technologies, they do not know how to regulate, and even many officials do not know what AI means.

There is a process of continuous improvement in human cognition, and most people believe it because they see it, but the paradox is that if AI really poses an existential threat to humans, I am afraid it will be too late.

Let's make a hypothesis, if nuclear technology does not have the relevant means of regulation and review, what will human society look like? In a sense, AI technology could be more destructive than nuclear technology.

Pros and cons of artificial intelligence

From the perspective of productivity improvement, artificial intelligence will have a very large effect, which will greatly liberate people from heavy physical work and many low-value mental work.

Whether it is sweeping robots, cooking robots, industrial robots, mining robots, medical robots, etc., it will bring great convenience to people. In terms of data analysis, image recognition, accuracy and efficiency, AI is promising.

But with the spread of AI, a large number of repetitive jobs will be replaced, many people will lose their jobs, and the invasion of privacy by AI is worrying, as well as challenges such as news, war, security, law, algorithmic discrimination, and ethics (such as the gap between rich and poor).

Kissinger said humans are not ready and that humans need to redefine their relationship with a new species like AI. This opinion is indeed worthy of attention and deep consideration by people from all walks of life.

However, there is a big consensus, that is, in general, AI is more beneficial than harmful to humans, and no one can say that AI technology is strangled in the cradle, it will develop anyway, so the key is the contradiction between development and control, which can get its benefits and eliminate its disadvantages.

For artificial intelligence, humans really need awe

In the Internet era, the Internet is full of all kinds of false, negative and harmful information, which poses a great challenge to people's ability to discern and judge information.

In the era of artificial intelligence, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false, AI will undoubtedly be easier if you want to deceive people, in fact, there are now cases of scammers using AI technology to deceive people, facing relatives and friends in the mobile phone, you don't know if the other party is a real person or a scammer disguised as a real person.

In addition, compared with the powerful digital thinking of AI (getting stronger, such as AI-style nonsense), what is the value and advantage of human thinking? More seriously, in the face of AI, how much room is there for the light of human civilization?

But the AI race has begun, and it seems that not many people are willing to stop and think about the risks of AI, everyone wants to run faster, as for the so-called safety issues, who cares?

The future is full of uncertainty, and this "uncertainty" is actually more brought about by human beings themselves. Exactly where AI will take humanity depends largely on what we do now.